take action that will benefit you, your husband, your child, or anybody closely related to you. something very germane to bob mueller and his team as they are looking into all this? absolutely, because it s such a broad-scoped statute, has such a broad reach. anybody with a large number of financial holdings, someone who s been a career government official may not have holdings in the middle east, russia, somewhere else, but somebody who spent their career in international business and becomes a federal branch appointee, now you re running into potential conflict of interest issues. and again, it isn t a crime to hold those interests. it is a crime to participate in a particular matter as the statute defines it, something that will benefit or harm you or your family. let s fit this into the broader narrative, look at some of the principles here. did kushner s business influence trump policy?
of 2015. that was his line from the very beginning, bernie. that he could change and he would see what comes his way and adjust and adapt. very interesting point. wall street journal headlines i want to put on the screen. donald trump s recent policy reversals reflect business influence. i get the sense, bernie, i likes the company of three people. he likes family and he likes generals and he likes ceos. how does that fit into this analysis then? right. well, if he is being influenced by people to change his positions the way he has been, i don t know that this is a terrible thing. i made the case just a few seconds ago it could be a very good thing. look, you know who should be the happiest over all of this? his critics. the romance with putin is over. russia is no longer our pal. china is no longer our enemy.
this jocking for power and influence, but the wall street journal has a great story about trump s policy reversals are a reflection of the business influence. he s got all these people around him gary cone for example, jared kushner his son-in-law and these business leaders who seem to be pulling him toward the center, do you agree? i don t know how much of a shift it really is. there s two sides. there s the economic, pop list side sort of represented by steve bannon but remember donald trump promised to bring this the best people and comes from a sort of appreciation of business, you can see this in his members of his cabinet including steve mnuchin. so this is the sort of other element of donald trump respecting that business acumen, a former goldman sacks person,
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the brooklyn bridge is occupied. occupy wall street s day culminating at one of new york s most iconic locations. you can see it now. people walking across. this is the pedestrian area which is important to emphasize. obviously, doesn t look like there s any disruption of traffic at this time. it all started at 7:00 this morning when protesters descended on the new york stock exchange in an attempt to shut down wall street. in zuccotti park, demonstrators clashed with police. they pulled down barricades that were there to block them from entering the area. hundreds prove testers have been arrested. nypd saying 177 to us just a moment ago. at least seven officers have been injured, according to the police. mayor bloomberg talked about those injuries earlier today at a press conference. someone in the crowd through a star-shaped glass object at the officer. another officer another protester through a liquid, possibly vinegar in the face o
protesters arrested according to an e-mail from outfront from the nypd moments ago. seven officers injured and what the mayor has to say about it. the mayor has to say about it. let s go outfront. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the brooklyn bridge is occupied. occupy wall street day of action culminating at one of new york s most iconic locations. you can see it now. people walking across. this is the pedestrian area, which is important to emphasize. doesn t look like there s any disruption of traffic at this time. it all started at 7:00 this morning when protesters descended on the new york stock exchange in an attempt to, quote, shut down wall street. now, in zuccotti park, the original campground, demonstrators clashed with police. they pulled down barricades that were there to block them from entering the area. hundreds of protesters have been arrested. nypd saying 177, at least 7 officers have been injured according to the